I'm definitely leftist politically, but I make an active effort to consider alternative points of view. I read center-right newspapers (usually the Times, occa

I'm definitely leftist politically, but I make an active effort to consider alternative points of view. I read center-right newspapers (usually the Times, occasionally the Telegraph) because I don't like existing in an echo chamber - and I feel like it's far easier to be manipulated if you're reading a news source whose viewpoint you usually agree with. While I often disagree with these newspapers, I still generally respect them - election time excluded, where many papers lose their sense of virtue. I respect them because they respect me enough to limit their attempts to use my emotions against me. This is not the case for the Daily Mail. An example (one of many) that crystallised this for me, from way back in my youth: Europe's switch to the Euro was underway, and the time to switch to euros in cash machines/as public currency. The Daily Mail, being very anti-Euro, had to paint this as a dismal failure. It weighed heavily on the fact that people were having to queue to get their new notes. It then followed up with a passage along the lines of 'At [some square in Germany], where Hitler's troops once marched, people queued around street corners to access the new currency' Now, I get it. They didn't like the Euro. Quite sensibly, in fact - conservatives in the UK deserve a fair bit of praise for keeping us out of that mess. This doesn't make the quoted passage an acceptable means of delivering news, though. I'm not sneering at the Daily Mail because it is right wing, but because its writing style is that of a manipulative propaganda rag. Personally, I think propaganda rags deserve sneering at.